Cell Phone Service

worried_mom
Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:02:16 +0000

Most college students seem to stay on their family’s cell phone plans (since that’s usually much cheaper than having a stand-alone plan) so they keep the home area code. Since your college friends will have area codes from all over the country, and most cell phone plans make no distinction between local and long-distance calls (you are paying for generic “minutes” of usage), it doesn’t make much sense to get a local number in Providence. Just make sure you have a plan with enough minutes and preferably unlimited texting.